Humbling place

Very very good thought provoking I would like to revisit and spend much longer there

Well looked after nice grounds well worth a look & donation. went there on the rttw must of been over thousands of motorbikes

A very special place, please go and visit and understand.

A very impressive place. Everyone should visit at least once.

Lovely place, full of history and historical facts well worth a visit. I have been several times and each time it gets better and better

Good place for a walk and to look at the memorials. Also great for kids, with two playgrounds and excellent café and restaurant. Free to enter and reasonable parking fee. It's worth keeping an eye out for drive-it-day, in April, where hundreds of classic cars are displayed in the arboretum (no additional charge).

What a place enjoyed it very much.

A truly moving experience. A "must" visit site. Entry is free and its just £3 to park for the day. A truly remarkable remembrance of the fallen.

It's a beautiful place, well laid out. A very moving experience.

Beautiful place to remember great friends

Great place to visit, to think about the past and what people have sacrificed for our today.

Such a peaceful place with time to reflect 😀

What an excellent day we have had. Butreally need more time there as so much to look at. And we was to chilled out to go round more. Definitely will be back if you suffering with stress go go go.

Awesome place to visit very humble to be there.

Well worth a visit

A lovely place to visit and free but donations are welcome. There are plenty of places to sit and reflect and plenty of paths to walk suitable for prams and wheelchair or there is a land train you can catch but you have to pay for the train, we opted to walk because you can take your time and get up close to the monuments. There were some surprises like the Showmen Guild and the railway industry memorial which was nice to see. There is a great café and a shop.

A very worthwhile visit it helps us to remember the cost of life for our freedom which we can so easily forget.

Really superb. A very emotional experience.

It was a marvellous day out and I definitely will be back at Christmas

Very beautiful but heart breaking sad. Thank you for your service xx

Amazing place

This is the toughest review I've written for TA. This was our first visit to the NMA. We have visited many cemeteries and memorials throughout the UK and Europe and the contrast couldn't be greater. CWGC cemeteries, even the large and famous ones, on the continent are always havens of peace and quiet. The NMA on the other hand seems to be a victim of its own success. Our visit was at a Monday lunchtime and the car park was rammed, not helped by visitors' shoddy parking wasting many of the exceedingly ungenerous badly marked spaces.
Despite being a free attraction, the tills at the entrance lay it on very thick that a donation is expected. (Frankly, the State should be funding the NMA.)
As we tried to get our bearings, a staff member/volunteer(?) offered assistance and was excellent at helping us find the particular memorial we were after.
I don't know if Monday is maintenance day, but during our visit the air was filled continuously with whining strimmers, leaf blowers (get a rake or a broom!) and lawn mowers. The whole NMA was impeccable and I realise it requires a lot of maintenance, so I hope they get it all out of the way every Monday and leave the rest of the week in peace.
The sheer number of visitors also spoiled the ambience. I shan't be returning when I want to remember in quiet contemplation.
The RNS memorial was closed off with plastic barriers with no explanation, running its setting ng. We thought it was unfinished, but the plaque suggested it was a few years old. The state of the barriers and surrounding vegetation suggested it had been closed off for some time.
We didn't use the £6 land train, but did experience the driver aggressively telling the waiting passengers how he wanted the train filled. Does it really matter? Couldn't he be polite?
At the end of the visit, we had a look round the shop, then visited the loos before trying to leave, but we couldn't find the exit and had to ask. Turns out the exit is through the gift shop and only through the gift shop - such blatant hard selling sticks in the craw at a place such as this. Even the National Trust, more often than not, have a simple alternative exit!

I visited the Arboretum as part of a coach day trip which also took in Lichfield. The weather wasn't great but I found the whole Arboretum experience very moving. I did the landtrain tour (because of the weather and our short visit) which gives you food for thought and I will certainly visit again. I did manage to walk round parts of the area but our trip certainly didn't allow us sufficient time to be able to take it all in. I spoke with one of the volunteers who suggested that really 2 days is needed to be able to see everything. The forces memorial in the centre of the Arboretum is stunning and I found this very emotional given all the names which are engraved of all those who have lost their lives since WW2. Definitely worth a visit - there is also a shop and a cafe/restaurant and I will certainly be going back to spend more time there.

One of the best places to visit and show respect to all of those who have given their all